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Rifles, Bullets, Barrels & Ballistics
TARGET BULLETS ARE NOT HUNTING BULLETS!
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<blockquote data-quote="cabelasken" data-source="post: 3051978" data-attributes="member: 117774"><p>After 58 years of big game hunting, I've made the following my criterial for bullets and rifles for elk and deer. The bullets should be able to provide and entrance AND exit hole. it should provide a wound channel of at least 3 to 5 inches from start to finish. It should be able to hold together after a shoulder impact on an elk or deer and still penetrate fully. The rifle should provide a starting velocity of at least 3000 fps with the selected bullet. Then I limit the range so that the impact velocity is at least 2250 fps. All with minimal meat loss. After participating with the dressing out of almost 100 elk and a like number of deer, and always asking what bullet manufacturer and style was used, I personally have now only used cup and core bullets for practice. Although they provide spectacular kills, the jello at the wound site, especially a shoulder or ham hit results in too much meat loss for me. Fortunately for me, I've been able drop nearly all the animals I've been after with one shot and have purposely missed the shoulder, hams or backstraps which keeps my freezer full!!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cabelasken, post: 3051978, member: 117774"] After 58 years of big game hunting, I've made the following my criterial for bullets and rifles for elk and deer. The bullets should be able to provide and entrance AND exit hole. it should provide a wound channel of at least 3 to 5 inches from start to finish. It should be able to hold together after a shoulder impact on an elk or deer and still penetrate fully. The rifle should provide a starting velocity of at least 3000 fps with the selected bullet. Then I limit the range so that the impact velocity is at least 2250 fps. All with minimal meat loss. After participating with the dressing out of almost 100 elk and a like number of deer, and always asking what bullet manufacturer and style was used, I personally have now only used cup and core bullets for practice. Although they provide spectacular kills, the jello at the wound site, especially a shoulder or ham hit results in too much meat loss for me. Fortunately for me, I've been able drop nearly all the animals I've been after with one shot and have purposely missed the shoulder, hams or backstraps which keeps my freezer full!!! [/QUOTE]
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